It happened again today. Someone comes into the office, he got laid off, needs a scholarship... So I ask him to put on tefilin. He readily agrees, gets very emotional and then asks the question:
"Do you get a Mitzvah when you put tefilin on me?"
And I don't know what to answer! Should I say "well yeah but that's not why I do it, I'm doing it just for you..." Then I sound like I don't mean it and an idiot too. So what do I say? I tell him something about the Rebbe making a campaign... To Get every Jewish male to put on tefilin... But the truth is the Rebbe somehow got me to get someone to do a mitzvah just for that person's sake. And it's so absurd I can't even tell that to him!
Basically it's always exciting to find out how crazy we are.
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Maybe in other words...
What I get is greater than a mitzvah, I get the oppurtunity to help someone else do a mitzvah!
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